Gas $3.45 a gal.; charge your e-bike 3 cents

[paultrafalgar]

So what looks like a better investment:
Putting your life savings in the market, hoping for a 15% return based on the opaque & convoluted mechanics of an ad-hoc system,
Or
Investing your life savings in enough PV & renewables to meet your needs plus some extra for expansion/resale that has a solid 30yr ROI and thereafter pays dividends in perpetuity?
...
For the first time in a quarter-century, people are driving less than the year before... times they be a changin.

RIGHT ON, Tyler, Nail on the head! That's what this forums about: Get on and do it for the planet. And don't give your cash to a lot of gangsters who'll invest in sub-prime mortgages etc.

 

[TylerDurden]

FWIW, NASA's Pioneer 6 is still operating... launched in 1965. Powered by PV.

Real-estate = bad. The biggest glut in history is soon to occur, as boomers check-into assisted living. Invest there (and rehab). If you can, build a self-storage facility next to a hospital, cover it with PV and provide free EV shuttle service to the assisted living facilities.

 

[rossfree]

I knew the real estate line was gonna get somebody going. It's only gonna be bad for those trying to sell... Cycles... always cycles. Remember 14 years ago. Can you remember a time when real estate went down and stayed down.

Not all baby boomers are gonna run for retirement homes. And people keep having kids... always always always... a growing population.

I like the self-storage thing.

FWIW, NASA's Pioneer 6 is still operating... launched in 1965. Powered by PV.

So you want to compare NASA's PV with what you and I could buy for our house.

Okeydoekee.

Here we are digressing again.

Onward!

Ross

 

[TylerDurden]

So you want to compare NASA's PV with what you and I could buy for our house.

1965-PV v. 2008-PV? No contest.

Real-estate enjoyed it's best boom after WWII. The back edge of that sword is comin around. 8)